aloofPenguin

Paint.net, unfortunately, is a Windows-only software. For Linux, I'd recommend something like Lazpaint. It's pretty close feature-wise, and I believe that it supports plugins.

another issue I faced with onshape is, while it is very excellent, the free plan limits your storage to public-only.

atm, if you're using Waydroid, you can use Aurora Store/ Droid. No shady websites needed!

I think it was through Murena Store before (don't know if it still is)

I was in the same boat as you regarding signing up. I also agree with you that the concept of federation might be confusing for new users. Just gave up at the promt to explore other instances (in lemmy.world sign up) and signed up to lemmy.world.

yeah, that is pretty neat! thanks for sharing! Also noticed that the trunk is hollow. Is that just a visual glitch or something of olive trees?

I don't think it will. If it does you will need to jump through a ton of hoops to get it working. I remember when I tried to set It up on WSL i had to manually set up anbox binders, and start dbus up every time. Even after that there were errors preventing me from doing anything beyond downloading the image.

It mostly doesnt matter what instance you choose as you can talk with almost any other instance.

since there isn't an advantage of one instance over another and you can talk to everyone, why/ what are the benefits of joining a specific instance?

sidebar: would it be possible to change instances after account creation?

I'd say yes, as this is what i'm currently experiencing (by comparing myself to others). I'd agree with @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works's stance. If you're not trying to improve and just bashing yourself, you will go down a spiral of misery. I feel like the self-improvement part requires some balance though. You can use this comparison as a source of intrinsic motivation, but you need to keep it from becoming too much to where you become demotivated, keep telling yourself that it is possible, that you can do this.

yeah, makes sense. The cynical part of my mind also led me to your 2nd explanation. :)

I'd do a PR. Although I would understand forking if the project maintainers wouldn't merge a PR. (or create an issue (for the fix/ addition) if the README says that it's an option)